Are you a cybersecurity specialist with deep knowledge of Microsoft Security including Entra, Defender, Purview, Sentinel, and Agent365, along with a broader foundation of industry technologies? Do you thrive on collaboration, tackling the most complex challenges, and earning the trust of customers? Are you endlessly curious — embracing uncertainty, taking smart risks, and learning quickly from every experience? If this sounds like you, we want you on our team!
We are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success to unlock the largest opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.
SME&C is more than a sales organization; it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.
As a Principal Security Specialist, you will lead Security strategy for the Sales Unit’s most strategic, complex, and high-risk customers. You will shape cybersecurity thought leadership, build resilient security foundations for AI and digital transformation, and drive executive engagement that delivers measurable business and risk outcomes. We are seeking a high-impact sales and technical individual with executive presence—equally adept at deep cybersecurity architecture and controls, translating technology into business risk and outcomes, leading C-level “CISO room” conversations, and winning complex pursuits while building credibility with even the most skeptical stakeholders.
In our Digital Solution Specialist team, you need to thrive in dynamic, sometimes ambiguous environments — learning fast, collaborating across teams, rebuilding trust with customers, and leading decisive defensive positioning when competitors threaten established Microsoft relationships. As a field multiplier and coach, you transfer sales plays, talk tracks, and judgment that elevate peers’ capability and confidence, accelerating deals and strengthening customer trust.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
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Required/minimum qualifications
Digital Solution Area Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $62.16 - $105.96 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $80.67 - $115.29 per hour.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Digital Solution Area Specialists IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $62.16 - $105.96 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $80.67 - $115.29 per hour.
Certain roles may be el.igible for benefits and other compensation Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
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